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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Democratic Party Panic

By Alan
Caruba

On
December 28th, the Democratic National Committee sent an email to “Obama for
America” supporters. The subject line was “Impeachment.”

“What do
these people have in common?” asked the text as it quoted Republican James
Inhofe of Oklahoma, Rep. Michele Bachman of Minnesota, Rep. Kerry Bentivivolio
of Michigan, and Rep. Blake Farenhold of Texas, all of whom discussed the
possibility of impeaching Obama, citing instances of official misconduct. The
DNC said, “Republicans are actually excited about the idea.”

Ten days
earlier, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the DNC, had sent an email
to supporters updating them on the party’s strategy to win elections in 2014.
“What you need is good strategy, smart people, and ideas you’re proud to stand
behind…” The one thing missing from the email was the mention of a single idea.
No mention of Obamacare, amnesty, or any other Democratic policies.

When I
visited Democrats.org on December 29, the website was telling members that
“The economy could face a credit downgrade if Republicans continue to threaten
to default on our loans.”No mention of
the first such downgrade in the history of the nation which occurred during
Obama’s first term and was a response to the nearly six trillion dollars he had
added to the nation’s debt.

Under the
headline “Dirtier”, the DNC claimed that “All the gains we’ve made for our
environment, like two million acres of preserved land and rivers will be on the
line.”That’s right, Republicans want
dirtier air and water, and the way to protect the nation is to ensure that
millions of acres cannot be used by Americans, especially if there is lots of
coal or oil is under those acres. According to Wikipedia, “As of
March 2012, out of the 2.27 billion acres in the country, about 28% of the
total was owned by American citizens represented by the National Federal
government according to the Interior Department.” That’s
right, more than a quarter of all the landmass of the nation is owned by the
federal government.

The
headline “Less Fair” was followed by “Our voter protection efforts and
workplace equality work will be undone” but it is Democrats who oppose any
state effort to pass laws that require proof of citizenship or even residency.
And, under “Less Healthy” it accused all who want to “’Repeal Obamacare’. Need
we say more?” Apparently a law that deprives you of your personal physician and
imposes higher costs on government-approved healthcare insurance plans is a
good thing.

Not only
are we witnessing a full scale panic in the Democratic National Committee, we
can read just how devoid of any truth and any sense any of their policies are.
If a few Republicans in Congress had a passing comment on impeaching President
Obama, it comes as no surprise whatever.

In late
December, Forbes magazine published an article by Ira Shapiro, a senior fellow
in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato
Supreme Court Review. The title was “President Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional
Violations of 2013.” Shapiro didn’t even have to go back any further to include
others during his first term.

Among
those cited was Obama’s delay of out-of-pocket caps, a change that requires
actual legislation. Similarly, the delay of Obamacare’s employer mandate was
cited because, if Obamacare is the “law of the land”, such changes require
action by Congress. Several other
changes to Obamacare by the President were cited for the same reason.

Political
profiling by the IRS was cited such as an internal BOLO, “Be on the lookout”.
for organizations engaged in political activities, citing “Tea Party”,
“Patriots” and “Israel” as words to identify them. The targeting continued
through May 2013 until it was exposed.

What
Republicans and independents know and Democrats do not want to acknowledge is
that Obamacare is, to use its most frequent description, “a disaster.” Many
suspect that Obama was and is ineligible to be President. The birth certificate
put forward by the White House has been declared a forgery. His Social Security
number is suspect. It is common knowledge that his college records are all
sealed even though he may have applied for admission as a “foreign student.”

So, yes,
the Democratic National Committee has a lot to hide about the President and its
support for legislation and regulations based on “climate change” and other
liberal notions that lack the knowledge of science and warp its practice. It
continues to advocate spending billions, if not trillions, the U.S. does not
have. And, finally, the President’s foreign policies—not mentioned in its
emails or on its website—have been a dismal failure, making the world more
dangerous.

The
Democratic Party has one thing going for it---the mainstream media. In the
Sunday before the New Year, the New York Times published a 7,000-word article
claiming that the attack on the Benghazi consulate where our ambassador and
three others were killed was not related to al Qaeda. In the words of former
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, “What difference does it make?” Answer: A
lot. This “newspaper” is the U.S. equivalent of Pravda during the days of
Stalin.

In
November, Americans have the opportunity to remove Democratic Senators and
Representatives who voted for Obamacare and replace them with candidates who
believe the Constitution means what it says.

2 comments:

"In November, Americans have the opportunity to...replace them with candidates who believe the Constitution means what it says."

Really? We knew most of this in 11/2012...and Obama still walked away with the election in his pocket. Of course, this involved uncounted military absentee ballots, military absentee ballots not delivered to the actual military voters, precincts in blue states with up to 167% of registered voters voting (95-99% for Obama), boxes and boxes of ballots "discovered" after the election too late to be counted, etc. Any news on ANY of the people who did their best to investigate any of this? Anybody? And the odds that it won't happen again, as "business as usual", in 2014? And again in 2016?

I agree with Tim Butler - Even if the Tea Party Movement generates one hellva landslide against the Obama Regime Congressional lackeys - at the end of the day the election of 2014 will likely be stolen by the Democrat Machine.

However, even if by miracle of miracles the GOP manages to win a majority in both Houses of Congress, Obama will simply ignore the legislative branch and rule by Decree.

...and if the peons get too out of hand with things like Impeachment, Obama is prepared to declare martial law and make mass arrests.

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